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β链易位障碍的起源

Origin of translocation barriers for polyelectrolyte chains

Rajeev Kumar, M. Muthukumar

摘要:

对于带电大分子通过窄孔的单行移位,末端到达孔的关键步骤受到自由能势垒的影响,自由能势垒由链内静电相互作用、离子云和溶剂分子的分布以及链的构象熵的变化引起。所有的影响因素的障碍在易位的初始阶段进行评估,通过使用自洽的场论的离子和耦合的泊松-玻尔兹曼描述,没有径向对称性。屏障被认为是基本上熵,由于构象变化。对于中等和高浓度的盐,障碍的链是定量相当于不带电的自我避免行走。静电效应被证明是增加的自由能垒,但只有轻微的。电离度、静电相互作用强度、盐浓度的降低和溶剂质量都会导致屏障的增加。

英文摘要:

For single-file translocations of a charged macromolecule through a narrow pore, the crucial step of arrival of an end at the pore suffers from free energy barriers, arising from changes in intrachain electrostatic interaction, distribution of ionic clouds and solvent molecules, and conformational entropy of the chain. All contributing factors to the barrier in the initial stage of translocation are evaluated by using the self-consistent field theory for the polyelectrolyte and the coupled Poisson-Boltzmann description for ions, without radial symmetry. The barrier is found to be essentially entropic, due to conformational changes. For moderate and high salt concentrations, the barriers for the polyelectrolyte chain are quantitatively equivalent to that of uncharged self-avoiding walks. Electrostatic effects are shown to increase the free energy barriers, but only slightly. The degree of ionization, electrostatic interaction strength, decreasing salt concentration and the solvent quality all result in increases in the barrier.

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